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US8084215B2
US8084215B2 US12/111,914 US11191408A US8084215B2 US 8084215 B2 US8084215 B2 US 8084215B2 US 11191408 A US11191408 A US 11191408A US 8084215 B2 US8084215 B2 US 8084215B2
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  • This disclosure relates to materials and methods for determining the presence and amount of one or more analytes of interest in keratinized structures of a subject, and more particularly to materials and methods for the same that do not require proteolytic processing of the keratinized structures.
  • This disclosure relates to an improved analytical method which allows the relatively rapid release and direct analysis of analytes, including organic analytes, such as certain drugs of abuse or metabolites thereof, present in hair and other keratinized structures, e.g., fingernails and toenails.
  • the method allows for the sensitive detection of such analytes without affecting the structure of the analytes and without being detrimental to analyte probes, e.g., antibody, RNA/DNA and bio-receptor probes, which may be used to detect the analyte.
  • an analyte probe can be added directly to a keratinized structure which is suspected to contain one or more analytes and which has been treated as described herein. In this way, the identity of the one or more analytes as well as the extent and duration of consumption of the one or more analytes by a subject can be evaluated.
  • Urine, blood, and oral fluid techniques are known to be disadvantageous in that the duration and intensity of use or exposure cannot be ascertained. These techniques can, at best, provide short term information concerning ingested analytes. In addition, there are also problems with the interpretation of such results. For example, the detection of a low level of ingested drug or drug metabolite in the urine could mean that a subject ingested a small amount of the drug very recently or a larger amount several days earlier. Thus, chronic drug use typically cannot be determined with these methods without repeated testing.
  • Solvent extraction procedures can suffer from several problems in accurately determining the presence and amount of an ingested analyte.
  • One of these problems is that the solvent extraction methods frequently remove only a small unknown and variable fraction of the total analyte present in the hair sample.
  • Another disadvantage is that different analytes may require different solvents or different times and temperature for extraction.
  • the solvents need to be evaporated, and many of the solvents are toxic and hazardous.
  • proteolytic and reductive treatment methods while efficient, are relatively expensive due to the cost of the proteolytic enzyme, which can also interfere in subsequent analyte detection assays by proteolytically cleaving analyte detection probes such as antibodies, thereby preventing the use of certain highly sensitive analytical techniques or requiring the use of intermediate protease neutralization, separation, or purification steps.
  • analyte detection method that can rapidly and completely release analytes from keratinized structures of the body such as hair, fingernails and toenails, and that can permit the direct determination of the identity of the analytes and their duration of use in a subject, without destroying or interfering with the analytes of interest and/or analyte detection probes such as immunoassay methods.
  • Keratinized structures such as hair are complex macroassemblies of keratin polypeptide chains that are cross-linked with numerous disulfide bonds, both intramolecularly and intermolecularly, to provide the rigidity and strength of the final structure.
  • Hair for example, is composed of coiled-coil keratin polypeptide chains that assemble to form a “protofibril;” a number of protofibrils are then bundled in a circle around two or more protofibrils to form an multi-stranded cable known as the “microfibril;” hundreds of such microfibrils taken together result in a fibrous bundle called a “macrofibril.”
  • the macrofibrils form the cortex (or the main body) layers of the hair fiber.
  • An analyte of interest can be trapped in a subject's keratinized structures as these structures grow.
  • proteolytic and reductive methods were used to fully digest and break down the keratinized structure, cleaving the keratin's proteinaceous backbone (e.g., breaking amide (peptide bond) linkages in the keratin) and reducing the intra- and intermolecular disulfide linkages to sulfhydryls, resulting in the uncoiling, unwinding, and peptidic breakage of these complex protein macrostructures.
  • the resulting method is both cost and time effective relative to prior methods, while still providing for sensitive detection of one or more analytes of interest. Moreover, the resulting method can be used in both screening and confirmatory assays for analytes of interest and, by way of example, is also compatible with immunoassay.
  • FIG. 1 sets forth a view of keratin, a protofibril comprising keratin, and a microfibril comprising protofibrils.
  • FIG. 2 demonstrates a cross-sectional view of a hair macrofibril to demonstrate how its complex macrostructure results from the assembly of microfibrils.
  • analytes are provided herein.
  • methods that permit the rapid release of one or more analytes from head or body hair or other keratinized structures of an individual (who previously ingested one or more of the analytes), followed by identification of the one or more analytes by known analytical techniques, including, e.g., highly sensitive receptor assays, immunoassays or instrumental techniques such as mass spectrometry or atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
  • the release of the one or more analytes into a reducing solution from the interior of the keratinized structure occurs without damaging the analyte and without causing harmful effects on a subsequently-used analyte detection probe (e.g., an antibody).
  • the methods also permit the detection of past use patterns in a subject over extended periods of time without performing repeated testing as is necessary in conventional testing methods which measure the content of the analyte in samples of blood, urine, or oral fluid.
  • the amount of analyte entrapped in hair of the same individual is directly proportional to the amount of analyte ingested, and a sectional analysis of a hair sample can provide information on historical use.
  • a sample of a keratinized structure e.g., hair
  • a subject e.g., a subject who may have ingested a particular analyte or is suspected of doing so.
  • analyte refers to any compound, whether endogenously produced or exogenously introduced in a subject.
  • an analyte of interest can be exogenously introduced in the subject, i.e., not normally present in the subject, but introduced through an exogenous method, such as via inhalation, parenteral administration (e.g., IV, transdermal, subcutaneous, or IM routes), or ingestion (e.g., oral, buccal, or transmucosal routes).
  • parenteral administration e.g., IV, transdermal, subcutaneous, or IM routes
  • ingestion e.g., oral, buccal, or transmucosal routes.
  • a metabolite or degradation product of an exogenously introduced analyte is an exogenous analyte of interest, despite the fact that it is endogenously made in vivo in a subject, because it was derived from an exogenously introduced analyte.
  • an analyte of interest can be an exogenously introduced drug-of-abuse, prescription medication, pain medication, organic compound, nutrient, metal, toxic chemical, pesticide, or a metabolite or degradation product thereof.
  • drugs of abuse, pain medications, or prescription medications, or metabolites thereof include an opioid, cannabinoid, NSAID, steroid, amphetamine, benzodiazepine, barbiturate, tricyclic, or ephedrine, or metabolite thereof.
  • cocaine and metabolites benzoylecgonine, cocaethylene, and norcocaine
  • opioids and metabolites thereof morphine, heroin, 6-monoacetylmorphine, diacetylmorphine, codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, and methadone
  • cannabinoids cannabinoids
  • PCP phencyclidine
  • amphetamines methamphetamines
  • MDMA ecstasy, methylenedioxy-methamphetamine
  • MDA methylenedioxyamphetamine
  • marijuana and THC and carboxy-THC metabolites
  • propoxyphene meperidine, benzodiazepines, carisoprodol, tramadol, fentanyl, buprenorphine, naltrexone, tricyclics, nicotine (and its metabolite cotinine), eve (methylenedioxy-ethylamphetamine), flu
  • an analyte of interest is endogenously produced, e.g., in an amount that correlates with the presence or absence of a disease state or metabolic state of a subject.
  • endogenous analytes include fatty acid esters (e.g., as markers of alcohol consumption); chromium (e.g., as measure of glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes); glucose (e.g., as measure of glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes); and glycosyl groups (e.g., as a measure of chronic hyperglycaemia).
  • the keratinized sample can range in size from about 4 to about 16 mg per mL of reducing agent solution, e.g., from about 5 to about 12 mg, from about 6 to about 10 mg, from about 7 to about 15 mg, from about 5 to about 10 mg, or from about 8 to about 14 mg per mL of reducing agent solution.
  • the sample can be first washed by known methods to remove analytes or contaminants which may have been deposited on the surface by external contact rather than by actual consumption.
  • the treatment method of the keratinized structure does not include contacting the keratinized structure with one or more proteolytic enzymes, such as papain, chymopapain, and proteinase K.
  • the treatment method does not proteolytically cleave peptide (amide) bonds in the structure, e.g., not cleave them substantially.
  • the method reduces, e.g., reduces substantially, disulfide bonds present in the keratinized structure sample but does not cleave peptide bonds (e.g., does not cleave them substantially) in the sample.
  • the treatment method comprises a reducing step, an optional deactivation step, and an optional purification (e.g., separation, filtration, or centrifugation) step.
  • the sample is contacted with a solution of a reducing agent (reducing solution), such as Dithiothreitol (“DTT”), so as to reduce inter- and intra-molecular disulfide bonds in the keratin macrostructure, thereby releasing entrapped analyte.
  • a reducing agent such as Dithiothreitol (“DTT”)
  • DTT Dithiothreitol
  • the keratinized structure sample can be contacted with a reducing solution consisting essentially of the reducing agent, or can be contacted with a reducing solution that does not comprise a proteolytic enzyme.
  • the contacting step does not result in the substantial breakage of peptide backbone bonds (i.e., amide bonds) in the keratin polypeptide chains.
  • the reduced keratinized structure sample can be optionally treated to deactivate residual reducing agent.
  • the deactivation step is performed in the absence of a proteolytic enzyme (e.g., in a solution consisting essentially of the deactivation agent, or in a solution that does not comprise a proteolytic enzyme).
  • a test sample can be taken from the treated keratinized structure sample, either after the contacting step with the reducing solution or after the optional deactivation step.
  • the sample can be removed directly, after the optional deactivation step, or after an optional purification step (e.g., separation, centrifugation, or filtration) to remove residual reduced keratinized sample.
  • the reducing agent for inclusion in the reducing solution can be any reducing agent capable of reducing disulfide bonds in keratinized structures.
  • Typical examples include DTT (2,3 dihydroxybutane-1,4-dithiol) or its isomer DTE (2,3 dihydroxybutane-1,4-dithiol), thioglycolate, cysteine, sulfites, bisulfites, sulfides, bisulfides or TCEP (tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine), or salt forms of any of the foregoing.
  • TCEP can be particularly useful in assays performed at lower pH ranges, e.g., 5.5 to about 8.
  • the concentration of the reducing agent in aqueous solution during the contacting step is about 1 to about 20 g/L, e.g., about 1 to about 15, about 2 to about 14, about 5 to about 15, about 10 to about 18, about 3 to about 12, about 4 to about 8, g/L.
  • the amount of reducing agent can vary based on the length of the reaction time and the detection methodology to be used.
  • the methods may be conducted at or near room temperature and near neutral pH.
  • the method may be performed at a temperature of between about 20° C. and 60° C. (e.g., about 20, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, or 60° C.) and at a pH between about pH 5 and about 10.5.
  • the pH of the method is between about 8.8 and 9.7 (e.g., 8.9, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.45, 9.5, 9.55, 9.6, 9.65) and the method occurs at a temperature of about 37° C.
  • a lower pH can be used, e.g., between about 5 to about 8.7 (e.g., about 5.2, 5.4, 5.6, 5.8, 6.0, 6.2, 6.4, 6.6, 7.0, 7.2, 7.4, 7.6, 7.8, 8.0, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, or 8.7).
  • Appropriate reaction conditions including reaction temperature, time, and pH, can be readily determined by those having ordinary skill in the art. For additional information, see, e.g., U.S. Pat. Nos.
  • DTT and DTE are particularly useful as reducing agents. It has been found that the use of DTT or DTE in the described processes results in release of the entrapped analytes within a relatively short period of time (depending on the amount and type of keratinized sample), e.g., in about 0.5 to about four hours, or about 1 to about 3 hours, or about 1.5 to about 2.5 hours. In certain embodiments, treatment for about 2 hours is sufficient, e.g., for about 5-15 mg of keratinized sample such as hair.
  • residual active reducing agent can be optionally deactivated by methods known to those having ordinary skill in the art, including simply waiting a sufficient period of time for deactivation to naturally occur. Typically this time period is from about 2 to about 14 hours after initial contact of the reducing agent with the keratinized sample, depending on the concentration and amount of reducing agent utilized, the pH, temperature, size of sample, etc.
  • residual reducing agent can be deactivated with the addition of certain metal ions, typically in the form of metal salts, to the reducing solution.
  • the addition of low amounts, e.g., from about 0.1 to about 1.0 g/L in the final sample solution, of such metal salts to the reducing solution after contacting it with the sample can significantly accelerate the time in which the reduced sample can be subjected to the analyte detection method, since it is not necessary to wait for the reducing agent to deactivate on its own.
  • Most effective are certain metal salts which do not precipitate out of the solution after chemically linking with, and deactivating the reducing agent, such as DTT or DTE. It can be useful to avoid precipitation in the reducing solution because such precipitation could result in a loss of analyte by adsorption to the precipitate or entrapment therein, or could cause interference by particulate obstruction of optical reading methods.
  • precipitation is also prevented by maintaining the pH of the reducing solution from about 6 to about 8, and most preferably at about 7.
  • One way this may be accomplished is by the addition of one molar BIS-TRIS base to keep the pH at about 7.
  • a pH of about 7 is also a useful pH for the performance of certain analyte detection methods, such as radioimmunoassay (RIA) or enzyme immunoassay.
  • salts of Zn ++ e.g., zinc sulfate and zinc nitrate
  • Mn ++ e.g., manganese sulfate
  • Fe +++ e.g., ferric sulfate and ferric chloride
  • Fe ++ e.g., ferrous sulfate
  • salts of Pb ++ e.g., lead acetate and lead nitrate
  • Cd ++ e.g., cadmium chloride
  • Hg ++ e.g., mercuric chloride
  • Ag ++ e.g., silver nitrate
  • Co ++ e.g., cobalt chloride
  • a salt of arsenite such as sodium arsenite (NaAsO 2 ) may be utilized to remove residual reducing agent (e.g., DTT or DTE) by formation of a precipitable compound.
  • residual reducing agent e.g., DTT or DTE
  • 100 microliters of a 100 mg/mL solution of sodium arsenite is added to 1 mL of hair digest solution (final concentration of about 10 g/L) to effectuate the deactivation of the reducing agent.
  • arsenite is not preferred because a precipitate can develop, thereby potentially adsorbing or entrapping analyte.
  • a metal salt in solution can be added to about 0.8 to about 1.6 mL (e.g., about 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 or 1.6 mL) of reducing solution at a time period from about 1 to about 5 (e.g., about 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5 or 5) hours after contacting the sample with the reducing solution.
  • the deactivation is rapidly complete, e.g., in less than about 30 minutes, such as in less than about 20 mins., less than about 10 mins., less than about 5 mins., or less than about 2 mins.
  • the reduced keratinized sample solution may be subjected to direct analysis by art recognized analyte detection methods, including receptor assays, protein-based analytical methods such as immunoassay including radioimmunoassay (RIA) or enzyme immunoassay (EIA), and/or instrumental methods such as mass spectroscopy chromatographic techniques, or atomic absorption.
  • art recognized analyte detection methods including receptor assays, protein-based analytical methods such as immunoassay including radioimmunoassay (RIA) or enzyme immunoassay (EIA), and/or instrumental methods such as mass spectroscopy chromatographic techniques, or atomic absorption.
  • instrumental methods may be used to confirm positive results obtained in immunoassay methods. Because these methods are not protein-based, the step of deactivation of reducing agent is not necessary. The speed and gentleness of the treatment method and the ability to quantitate efficiency through the inclusion of a “spike,” i.e., the inclusion of a known amount of deuterated analyte, makes the presently disclosed treatment method also the method of choice for instrumental analysis methods such as gas chromatography, liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
  • the method can be used to detect the use and prior use of any analyte of interest described previously, including drugs of abuse such as cocaine, morphine/heroin and other opioids, cannabinoids, marijuana, phencyclidine or “PCP,” methaqualone, and amphetamines. Moreover, the method can be effective in determining prior usage of prescription drugs such as digoxin, methadone and benzodiazepines. It is contemplated that any analyte, particularly any organic analyte, present in the bloodstream of an individual which is transferred to the hair during its synthesis can be extracted and analyzed in accordance with the methods described herein.
  • a detergent can be used to aid in the release of one or more analytes of interest.
  • Certain biological detergent compounds useful for solubilizing biological membrane components aid in the release of the analytes at a relatively low pH while not interfering with reduction or subsequent analyte detection. These biological detergents can aid the in the treatment of a keratinized sample at a pH in the range of about 5 to about 10.5.
  • Suitable detergents include bile acid detergents, such as glycocholic acid, cholic acid, taurocholic acid, deoxycholic acid, glycodeoxycholic acid, taurodeoxycholic acid and salts thereof, including sodium salts.
  • detergents for use in the methods are sulfo-betaines, such as the Zwittergents® and betaines, such as Empigen BB (N-dodecyl-N,N-dimethylglycine) (all available from Calbiochem Corp., La Jolla, Calif.).
  • alkylglucosides including hexyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, heptyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, nonyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, decyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside and octyl-beta-D-thioglucopyranoside (OSGP).
  • alkylglucosides including hexyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, heptyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, nonyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, decyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside and oct
  • bile acids cholic acid and glycocholic acid which aid in the digestion of hair at a pH in the range of about 6.3 to about 8.
  • the deoxycholates such as deoxycholic acid and glycodeoxycholic acid are effective in aiding in the digestion of hair at a pH above about 7.
  • the detergents can be used in the industry standard five-drug screen for the most common drugs of abuse in the United States, i.e., marijuana, cocaine, phencyclidine, methamphetamine and opioids, measured using the methods described herein. Thus, they do not impact any of the analytes or antibodies involved in the five-drug screen, and do not result in false negatives or positives.
  • the particular detergents most effective for use in the five-drug screen are cholate, deoxycholate, cholic acid, deoxycholic acid, octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside and octyl-beta-D-thioglucopyranoside.
  • the bile acid detergents, alkylglucosides, sulfobetaines and betaines are preferred when a screen is performed that includes cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine, amphetamines and sympathomimetic amines.
  • the preferred detergents are cholic acid, Zwittergents®, alkylglucoides, and N-dodecyl-N,N dimethylglycine.
  • the biological detergent is mixed with the aqueous reducing solution prior to contact of the solution with the keratinized sample at a temperature range of about 30 to about 40° C.
  • about 1-2 mg of biological detergent is added to about 1 ml of reducing solution.
  • the benefits to be obtained from the presently disclosed methods are many, including a prompt, accurate, and inexpensive determination of prior exposure to a particular analyte.
  • the method can provide a record of consumption, or non-consumption, over very long periods of time.
  • By removal of any proteolytic treatment steps both the expense of a proteolytic method and certain interferences with biological analyte detection agents are reduced.
  • a synergistic interaction between a proteolytic enzyme and a reducing agent for diffusion of each agent into the hair structure is not required for efficient release of analytes of interest.
  • hair collection is less intrusive and less physically repulsive than blood or urine collection, and samples cannot be altered or substituted, nor can detection be evaded by short term abstention or “flushing” (excessive fluid intake) prior to a scheduled testing, e.g., pre-employment test or annual physical examination. Samples may be stored indefinitely without refrigeration.
  • the methods facilitate both screening and confirmatory assays for detecting an analyte of interest.
  • the radioimmunoassays were performed by combining aliquots of sample with I 125 -labeled drug and a primary antibody directed against the drug.
  • the labeled and unlabeled drug in the sample compete for binding sites on the primary antibody.
  • a second antibody directed against the primary antibody was added to precipitate the antibody-bound drug.
  • the precipitated bound fractions were counted in a gamma counter.

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